Peer Violence in Provision for Children in Care

Children Behaving Badly?: Peer Violence between Children and Young People

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 71-84

  Kendrick, Andrew ^a  

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Author keywords

Context of residential child care, bullying behaviour of one person or group, distress to persons or groups; Entry into care, alienating and traumatising in its own right; Extent and nature of peer violence in out of home care; Factors, implications for issue of peer violence in out of home care settings; Locating peer violence within broader social contexts gendered and racist nature of peer violence; Peer violence in provision for children in care; Peer violence issues and provision for children in care; Peer violence, in out of home provision; Residential child care bullying in residential care, frightening for young people; Tendency to focus on abuse and violence in residential care

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EID: 84885992562     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470976586.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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